Rakhine State Essays

  • Issues Regading the Rohingya Ethnic in Myanmar

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    human security respond to this issue, let we introduce who is Rohingya first. According to (Chan, 2005), “The people who call themselves Rohingyas are the Muslims of Mayu Frontier area, present-day Buthidaung and Maungdaw Townships of Arakan (Rakhine) State, an isolated province in the western part of the country across Naaf River as boundary from Bangladesh. They were indeed the direct descendants of immigrants from the Chittagong District of East Bengal (present-day Bangladesh), who had migrated

  • Examples Of Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird

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    Prejudice affects the entirety of the world today. Hundreds of thousands of people flee prejudiced governments all around the world. A current example of this inhumanity is the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people in Myanmar. According to the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund, “Today, there are an estimated 720,000 Rohingya children in Bangladesh and Myanmar, in dire need of humanitarian assistance and protection – and looking to the outside world for help.” (United Nations Children's Emergency

  • Ethnic Conflict In Myanmar Case Study

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    conflict has created a lengthy history of anti-Muslim sentiments among the Buddhist population in Myanmar (Cheesman and Farrelly 2016, p. 14). These sentiments have led to long-term communal tensions between the Rohingya Muslims and the Rohingya and Rakhine Buddhists (Kipgen 2013, p. 298). This perceived history of conflict extends outside of Myanmar as well. Some Burmese Buddhists use international examples of Muslim and Buddhist conflict as evidence of a history of conflict between the two groups:

  • The Importance Of Nationalism In Education

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    backgrounds. The United States teaches nationalism as a shared culture across multiple cultures within the United States. However, it can also be used to divide people based on their ethnicity. In Bosnia and Herzegovina the educational system was fragmented along ethnonational lines, and education was used for the nationalist political control during the war (Hromadzic, 2008). This mirrors the educational system in Myanmar; however, in Myanmar the educational system is state-sponsored, unlike in Bosnia

  • Discrimination In The Rohingya

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    Rohingya have often been called the most persecuted minority in the world. The 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims squeezed precariously into the north-west state of Rakhine, in mainly Buddhist Burma, bordering majority Muslim Bangladesh, are stateless and unwanted. Neither country will give them citizenship even though their families’ roots in modern-day Rakhine, once called Arakan, can be traced back to the Eighth Century. How are they being persecuted? Some 420,000 Rohingya Muslims, a religious and ethnic

  • Perception and Plight: The Rohingya Refugee Crisis

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    In the current state of the world, refugees have always been a “problem”. Refugee’s have never really had a safe place in any country. As of 2015, over 1.6 billion people were considered Muslim but no matter where the refugee goes, they are seen as a terrorist (Lipka 2017). Almost half of these Muslims are children. Feliz Solomon wrote an article about the Rohingya refugees. In the article “Rohingya Children Are in Desperate Need of Aid, the U.N. says” the author Solomon was able to explain the trouble

  • Summary Of The Devil's Highway By Luis Urrea

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    The Devil’s Highway, written by Luis Urrea, is a true story about the migration from Mexico into the US. It tells the story of immigrants dying as they try to enter the US for a better life. The Author focused on individual subjects as well as the circumstances in which brought the men to decide to cross the border at the risk of dying. Immigration is the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to

  • Rohingya And Hannah Arendt's The Origins Of Totalitarianism

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    ‘national race’ . In The Origins of Totalitarianism , Hannah Arendt explores the idea that the interests of the nation state infringe upon the Universal Rights of Man. The

  • Thailand Life In Thailand

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    hundred million and more that occupy the United States. A comparison as this may suggest employment more readily available in Thailand than the United States; less people correlates to less competition. In fact, the Central Intelligence Agency stated an individual residing in Thailand was ninety percent less likely to be unemployed paralleled to the United States. (CIA) Thailand’s unemployment rate is at an astounding 0.70%, whereas the United States stands at an estimated 7.30%. Though Thailand may

  • Discuss The Pros And Cons Of Government Regulations On Intermodal Transport

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    Like everything in life, government regulations has its’ pro and cons. It is important that the government have some type of regulation on intermodal transportation, because without regulations things tend to spiral out of control. Too much government regulations can also stifle growth and expansion of the industry. Government tends to regulate different aspects of the intermodal industry, like what modes of transportation should be most frequently used by the industry. Government also regulates

  • First In Math Research Paper

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    Should First in Math be brought back again for next year students of Baldi Middle School? The math program, First in Math, is heavily used throughout school districts, including the School District of Philadelphia. As the years have gone by, Baldi has dropped other things to keep this program, however with all the hate it gets the question is often asked, why keep this program? With the budget problem as well, in the Philadelphia School District, is it really worth it to keep First in Math in Baldi

  • Overstepping Boundaries In The United States

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    healthy? Katie Rosenhouse once said, “what is life without a little sugar and salt and the good stuff.” So therefore, is it really anyone's business about what people choose to consume? The government should follow the First amendment. Which states the people have the right to freedom. If they take away the people's right to eat junk food, salt, and sugar then the government is basically taking away their freedom to drink and eat what they please. Without the sugar, the salt, and other sweet

  • Automated Fingerprint Identification System

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    general identification and fraud prevention. This essay will summarize the case, State v. Keith and briefly explain the purposes and impediments of computerized fingerprint systems. On January 2005, the Allen County Grand Jury indicted Ontrayis Keith on two counts of aggravated burglary; both are felonies of the first degree. The charges come from two robberies that occurred in Lima, Ohio on December 1, 2004. ("State v. Keith", 2007) The first count was based on Ontrayis Keith's alleged robbery of

  • Is The Lottery An Example Of The Utilitarian Monster

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    life in the hope that one day they land on the jackpot to take the house. 2) How can you set yourself up to argue in favour of or against the ethical existence of the lottery in terms of monetized utilitarianism? a) On one hand, there are positive state kickbacks from monetizing

  • Naz Decision Case Summary

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    Selected Issues in Dispute Resolution Advanced Decision Analysis Case Study on Naz Decision Case Brief: This case study is about analyzing a decision-making process that was found in The Night of TV show, episode 4 “ The Art of War”. Where Nasir “ Naz” Khan, the main character in the show is having a deal plea in a case where all evidence is against him. Here, Naz has to choose between taking the plea deal or rejecting it. By accepting the plea deal, Naz his sentence would be reduced

  • Moral Obligations In Antigone

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    collision between one-sided positions rather than the collapse of one tragic hero. This is best exemplified in Sophocles’ Antigone when two factions battle over the proper way to dispose of a person who was both a family member and an enemy of the state. Looking at each standpoint, both embody some form of selflessness and good. King Kreon was acting on behalf of the people to protect the kingdom from an enemy while Antigone was acting for her family by trying to honor her brother with a proper burial

  • A Case For Torture

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    for the good of the public. In his article, Bagaric states that torture sometimes simply has to be done for the good of the public throughout the article. He begins by saying that war is wrong, but sometimes there are exceptions that we need to recognize. “The belief that torture is always wrong is, however, misguided and symptomatic of the alarmist and reflexive responses typically emanating from social commentators.” (Bagaric, 226). He states that one cannot simply say that torture is wrong and

  • Collectivism Vs Collectivism

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    Whether this is through ideas like welfare state where the government supports its people by providing things such as financial support or individualistic ideas like pursuing your own self-interest. The source provided wants all of us to believe that by supporting the ideologies of collectivism through welfare state, it will only result with us depending on the government instead of striving for our own success. The statement from the source, “The welfare state arose out of a misguided desire to

  • Child Support Case Summary

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    old now and the child support case was closed. Mr. McCoy stated his second issue is regarding his daughter, Cierra Sanner’s mother, CP, Chinureye Sanner. He stated that they left the State of Alabama in 1997; and he left in 1998. He stated his daughter is 21 years old now; he still pays child support to the State of Alabama, and he is still in arrears. He stated he does not know where the money is going and that he would like to know where the money

  • Never Lose Hope

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    mortal, deathless, living or lasting forever.” In “The Chimney Sweeper”, Blake saw immortality in a different sense than Webster states. Blake saw immortality as happiness throughout life and the importance of hope. “The Chimney Sweeper” is a great title for Blake’s poem. The title is a symbol representing the harsh life of a chimney sweeper and his life as a child. He states, “When my mother died I was very young, and my father sold me while yet my tongue”, (ln 1-2). This is saying that his mother died